Workers' Compensation News

The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is on track to release formal rule-making proposals next month on preauthorization for all compounded drugs and to allow billing for telemedicine services.
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The attorney for a former Iowa workers’ compensation commissioner who alleges then-Gov. Terry Branstad discriminated against him because he is gay has narrowed the scope of his lawsuit and plans to take it to trial next year.
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The Illinois Appellate Court ruled that a firefighter was entitled to a new hearing on her entitlement to disability retirement benefits because she had been denied a fair hearing the first time around.
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The father-and-son owners of a Monterey County farm labor contracting business were sentenced to 250 days in jail and ordered to pay $382,951.59 in restitution after pleading guilty to four felony counts of insurance fraud.
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An ad hoc committee of the Montana Employment Relations Division will continue discussion plans for implementing a prescription drug formulary for injured workers during a meeting in December.
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Colorado regulators anticipate updating the workers’ compensation medical fee schedule and medical treatment guidelines next year, as well as revising penalties assessed to employers for improperly misclassifying workers, according to the 2018 regulatory agenda that the Department of Labor ...Read More

Today's Round Up

03/20/2018 |
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The North Carolina Department of Insurance has hired 15 new agents to fight a rising tide of insurance fraud.
Mike Causey
The state's General Assembly last year appropriated $2.4 million to hire the agents after fraud arrests jumped to 334 in 2017, a 60% increase from the previous year, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey said in news release. Each month, the department receives 400 to 500 fraud complaints, Causey said.
The new agents were trained at the department's anti-fraud academy and include a crime analyst, forensic accountant, attorneys and special agents.
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03/19/2018 |
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Texas could make better use of stop-work orders to crack down on employers who misclassify workers as contractors to avoid paying workers' compensation, a Washington, D.C., think tank said this week.
Andrew Elmore
The Migration Policy Institute, which studies migration worldwide, on Thursday released a study that shows immigrants are twice as likely as native-born workers to be employed in industries in which labor violations are widespread.
Misclassifying workers as independent contractors is common in low-wage businesses, the report said.
Some states, including Texas, are not ...
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